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Homepage:	https://www.dundee.ac.uk/people/morris-altman
Postal address:	University of Dundee Nethergate Dundee DD1 4HN Scotland, UK
Workplace:	School of Business, University of Dundee, (more information at EDIRC) Department of Economics, University of Saskatchewan, (more information at EDIRC)

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Working Papers

2021

1. Beauty and Preferences Formation Exemplified in the Sports Market
   CREMA Working Paper Series, Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA)

2015

2. Cooperative Organizations as an Engine of Equitable Rural Economic Development
   Newcastle Business School Discussion Paper Series: Research on the Frontiers of Knowledge, The University of Newcastle, Australia View citations (13)
   Also in Working Paper Series, Victoria University of Wellington, School of Economics and Finance (2014)

2014

3. Insights from behavioral economics on how labor markets work
   Working Paper Series, Victoria University of Wellington, School of Economics and Finance

2012

4. Behavioural economics perspectives: Implications for policy and financial literacy
   Working Paper Series, Victoria University of Wellington, School of Economics and Finance View citations (3)

2011

5. Co-operative Advantage
   Competition & Regulation Times, New Zealand Institute for the Study of Competition and Regulation
6. Is There a Cooperative Advantage?
   Working Paper Series, Victoria University of Wellington, The New Zealand Institute for the Study of Competition and Regulation

1995

7. Business Cycle Volatility and Economic Growth: The Historical Record, 1870-1986
   Working Papers, Saskatchewan - Department of Economics View citations (4)
   See also Journal Article Business Cycle Volatility and Economic Growth: The Historical Record, 1870–1986, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals (1995) View citations (5) (1995)

1992

8. The Relative Prosperity of French-Canadian and Non-French Canadian Farms in Lower Canada, 1851-52: A Cross- Sectional Analysis of the 'Backwardness' Hypothesis
   Working Papers, Saskatchewan - Department of Economics

1991

9. The Volatility of Canadian Business Cycles, 1870-1986
   Working Papers, Saskatchewan - Department of Economics

Journal Articles

2023

1. Editorial
   Review of Behavioral Economics, 2023, 10, (1), 1-1

2021

2. Methodological challenges in Behavioural Economics: Towards a more holistic and empirically rooted economic science
   Journal of Behavioral Economics for Policy, 2021, 5, (S3), 19-33
3. Organizational capital, human capital and the humane firm: Opportunities and obstacles to wellbeing
   Journal of Behavioral Economics for Policy, 2021, 5, (S1), 39-46
4. The Importance of Context for the Development of Labour Market Theory and Policy
   Journal of Contextual Economics (JCE) – Schmollers Jahrbuch, 2021, 141, (1-2), 109-127

2020

5. A more scientific approach to applied economics: Reconstructing statistical, analytical significance, and correlation analysis
   Economic Analysis and Policy, 2020, 66, (C), 315-324 View citations (1)
6. Smart thinking, lockdown and COVID-19: Implications for public policy
   Journal of Behavioral Economics for Policy, 2020, 4, (S), 23-33 View citations (8)
7. Why realism and methodological pluralism matter for robust research and public policy: perspectives from behavioural economics
   International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education, 2020, 11, (2), 130-148

2019

8. Implications of smart decision-making and heuristics for production theory and material welfare
   Mind & Society: Cognitive Studies in Economics and Social Sciences, 2019, 18, (2), 167-179 View citations (1)

2018

9. Extending the theoretical lenses of behavioral economics through the sociological prisms of Gary Becker
   Journal of Behavioral Economics for Policy, 2018, 2, (1), 45-51

2017

10. John Tomer: Integrating human capital with human development: the path to a more productive and humane economy. Palgrave advances in behavioral economics, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2015
    Journal of Bioeconomics, 2017, 19, (2), 247-251
11. Policy Consequences of Multiple Equilibria and the Indeterminacy of Economic Outcomes in a Boundedly Rational World: Closing the System with Non-Economic Variables
    Forum for Social Economics, 2017, 46, (3), 234-251
12. The importance of co-operatives to the New Zealand economy
    International Journal of Social Economics, 2017, 44, (12), 2086-2096

2016

13. IS THERE A KINK IN THE HAPPINESS LITERATURE?
    APSTRACT: Applied Studies in Agribusiness and Commerce, 2016, 10, (2-3), 10

2013

14. Economic Freedom, Material Wellbeing, and the Good Capitalist Governance Index
    Journal of Economic Issues, 2013, 47, (1), 247-268 View citations (3)

2012

15. Implications of behavioural economics for financial literacy and public policy
    Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), 2012, 41, (5), 677-690 View citations (25)
16. The Living Wage, Economic Efficiency, and Socio-Economic Wellbeing in a Competitive Market Economy
    Forum for Social Economics, 2012, 41, (2-3), 166-186

2010

17. Freedom to Choose and Choice X-inefficiencies: Human and Consumer Rights, and Positive and Normative Implications of Choice Behavior
    Review of Social Economy, 2010, 68, (4), 395-411

2009

18. A Behavioral-Institutional Model of Endogenous Growth and Induced Technical Change
    Journal of Economic Issues, 2009, 43, (3), 685-714 View citations (8)
19. The transition process from alternative theoretical prisms
    International Journal of Social Economics, 2009, 36, (7), 716-742

2008

20. How much economic freedom is necessary for economic growth? Theory and evidence
    Economics Bulletin, 2008, 15, (2), 1-20 View citations (20)

2007

21. Economic growth, 'globalisation' and labour power
    Global Business and Economics Review, 2007, 9, (2/3), 297-318 View citations (1)

2006

22. Human agency and free will: choice and determinism in economics
    International Journal of Social Economics, 2006, 33, (10), 677-697 View citations (1)
23. Involuntary unemployment, macroeconomic policy, and a behavioral model of the firm: Why high real wages need not cause high unemployment
    Research in Economics, 2006, 60, (2), 97-111 View citations (1)
24. Opening-up the objective function: choice behavior and economic and non-economic variables—core and marginal altruism
    Economics Bulletin, 2006, 4, (33), 1-7 View citations (9)

2005

25. Behavioral Economics, Power, Rational Inefficiencies, Fuzzy Sets, and Public Policy
    Journal of Economic Issues, 2005, 39, (3), 683-706 View citations (4)
26. The economics of ethics revisited and importance of economics: A response to the critics
    Journal of Economic Psychology, 2005, 26, (5), 774-778 View citations (4)
27. The ethical economy and competitive markets: Reconciling altruistic, moralistic, and ethical behavior with the rational economic agent and competitive markets
    Journal of Economic Psychology, 2005, 26, (5), 732-757 View citations (11)

2004

28. Gender, human capabilities and culture within the household economy
    International Journal of Social Economics, 2004, 31, (4), 325-364
29. Introduction
    Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), 2004, 33, (5), 523-525
30. Statistical significance, path dependency, and the culture of journal publication
    Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), 2004, 33, (5), 651-663 View citations (10)
31. The Nobel Prize in behavioral and experimental economics: a contextual and critical appraisal of the contributions of Daniel Kahneman and Cernon Smith
    Review of Political Economy, 2004, 16, (1), 3-41 View citations (6)
32. Why Unemployment Insurance Might Not Only Be Good for the Soul, It Might Also Be Good for the Economy
    Review of Social Economy, 2004, 62, (4), 517-541 View citations (4)

2003

33. Economic Growth and Income Equality: Implications of a Behavioural Model of Economic Growth for Pub lic Policy
    Canadian Public Policy, 2003, 29, (s1), 87-118
34. On the Natural Intelligence of Women in a World of Constrained Choice: How the Feminization of Clerical Work Contributed to Gender Pay Equality in Early Twentieth Century Canada
    Journal of Economic Issues, 2003, 37, (4), 1045-1074 View citations (2)
35. Staple theory and export‐led growth: constructing differential growth
    Australian Economic History Review, 2003, 43, (3), 230-255 View citations (24)

2002

36. Economic Theory and the Challenge of Innovative Work Practices
    Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2002, 23, (2), 271-290
37. The Journal of Socio-Economics: the road to the future
    Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), 2002, 31, (4), 323-325

2001

38. A behavioral model of labor supply: casting some light into the black box of income-leisure choice
    Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), 2001, 30, (3), 199-219 View citations (17)
39. A revisionist view of the economic implications of child labor regulations
    Forum for Social Economics, 2001, 30, (2), 1-23 View citations (1)
    Also in Forum for Social Economics, 2001, 30, (2), 1-23 (2001) View citations (1)
40. Culture, human agency, and economic theory: culture as a determinant of material welfare
    Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), 2001, 30, (5), 379-391 View citations (13)
41. When green isn't mean: economic theory and the heuristics of the impact of environmental regulations on competitiveness and opportunity cost
    Ecological Economics, 2001, 36, (1), 31-44 View citations (18)

2000

42. A behavioral model of path dependency: the economics of profitable inefficiency and market failure
    Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), 2000, 29, (2), 127-145 View citations (13)
43. A behavioral theory of economic welfare and economic justice
    International Journal of Social Economics, 2000, 27, (11), 1098-1131
44. Labor rights and labor power and welfare maximization in a market economy ‐ Revising the conventional wisdom
    International Journal of Social Economics, 2000, 27, (12), 1252-1269

1999

45. A Theory of Population Growth When Women Really Count
    Kyklos, 1999, 52, (1), 27-43 View citations (3)
46. NEW ESTIMATES OF HOURS OF WORK AND REAL INCOME IN CANADA FROM THE 1880s TO 1930: LONG‐RUN TRENDS AND WORKERS' PREFERENCES
    Review of Income and Wealth, 1999, 45, (3), 353-372 View citations (1)
47. The Methodology of Economics and the Survival Principle Revisited and Revised: Some Welfare and Public Policy Implications of Modeling the Economic Agent
    Review of Social Economy, 1999, 57, (4), 427-449 View citations (14)

1998

48. A High-Wage Path to Economic Growth and Development
    Challenge, 1998, 41, (1), 91-104 View citations (8)

1997

49. Profits and Politics: Beaverbrook and the Gilded Age of Canadian Finance. By Gregory P. Marchildon · Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996. xvi + 348 pp. Figures, illustrations, bibliographical references, and index. $39.00. ISBN 0-8020-0740-6
    Business History Review, 1997, 71, (1), 130-132

1996

50. Divergent Paths: How Culture and Institutions Have Shaped North American Growth. By Marc Egnal · New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996, xvi + 304 pp. Figures, illustrations, biographical references, and index. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-19-509866-8; paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-19-510906-6
    Business History Review, 1996, 70, (4), 614-616
51. Gender pay inequality and occupational change in Canada, 1900-1930
    Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), 1996, 25, (3), 285-309 View citations (1)

1995

52. Business Cycle Volatility and Economic Growth: The Historical Record, 1870–1986
    Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, 1995, 17, (4), 561-577 View citations (5)
    See also Working Paper Business Cycle Volatility and Economic Growth: The Historical Record, 1870-1986, Working Papers (1995) View citations (4) (1995)
53. Labor Market Discrimination, Pay Inequality, and Effort Variability: An Alternative to the Neoclassical Model
    Eastern Economic Journal, 1995, 21, (2), 157-169 View citations (3)
54. Preface
    Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), 1995, 24, (3), 409-410

1993

55. Human agency as a determinant of material welfare
    Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), 1993, 22, (3), 199-218
56. Maritime Capital: The Shipping Industry in Atlantic Canada, 1820–1914. By Eric W. Sager with Gerald E. Panting. McGill-Queen's University Press, 1990. Pp. xviii, 289. $39.95
    The Journal of Economic History, 1993, 53, (3), 703-704

1992

57. Business Cycle Volatility in Developed Market Economies, 1870-1986: Revisions and Conjectures
    Eastern Economic Journal, 1992, 18, (3), 259-275 View citations (3)
58. REVISED REAL CANADIAN GNP ESTIMATES AND CANADIAN ECONOMIC GROWTH, 1870–1926
    Review of Income and Wealth, 1992, 38, (4), 455-474 View citations (2)

1988

59. Economic development with high wages: An historical perspective
    Explorations in Economic History, 1988, 25, (2), 198-224 View citations (6)
    See also Chapter Economic Development with High Wages: An Historical Perspective, Springer Books, 2022, 199-229 (2022) (2022)

1987

60. A Revision of Canadian Economic Growth: 1870-1910 (A Challenge to the Gradualist Interpretation)
    Canadian Journal of Economics, 1987, 20, (1), 86-113 View citations (2)
    See also Chapter A Revision of Canadian Economic Growth: 1870–1910 (A Challenge to the Gradualist Interpretation), Springer Books, 2022, 301-336 (2022) (2022)
61. The Rise and Fall? of Montreal: A Case Study of Urban Growth, Regional Economic Expansion and National Development. By Benjamin Higgins. Moncton, New Brunswick: Canadian Institute for Research on Regional Development, 1986. Pp. x, 256. $12.95 paper
    The Journal of Economic History, 1987, 47, (1), 290-291
62. Évolutions et éclatement du monde rural: France et Québec, XIIe XXe siècles, sous la direction de JOSEPH GOY et JEAN-PIERRE WALLOT. — Éditions de l’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales et Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 1986, 519 p
    L'Actualité Economique, 1987, 63, (1), 155-157

1986

63. Resource Endowments and Location Theory in Economic History: A Case Study of Quebec and Ontario at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
    The Journal of Economic History, 1986, 46, (4), 999-1009 View citations (2)

Books

2022

1. Lessons from a Successfully Export-Oriented, Resource-Rich Economy
   Springer Books, Springer View citations (1)

2020

2. Why Ethical Behaviour is Good for the Economy
   Books, Edward Elgar Publishing

Edited books

2023

1. Handbook of Research Methods in Behavioural Economics
   Books, Edward Elgar Publishing

2022

2. Constructing a More Scientific Economics
   Palgrave Advances in Behavioral Economics, Palgrave Macmillan

2017

3. Handbook of Behavioural Economics and Smart Decision-Making
   Books, Edward Elgar Publishing View citations (5)

Chapters

2023

1. Behavioural labour economics
   Chapter 9 in Handbook of Research Methods in Behavioural Economics, 2023, pp 153-171
2. Behavioural theories of the firm with a focus on x-efficiency and effort discretion: Implications for analysis
   Chapter 11 in Handbook of Research Methods in Behavioural Economics, 2023, pp 190-207
3. Bounded rationality, imperfect and costly information and sub-optimal outcomes in the sports and health and fitness industries
   Chapter 14 in Handbook of Research Methods in Behavioural Economics, 2023, pp 243-267
4. Introduction to the Handbook of Research Methods in Behavioural Economics
   Chapter 1 in Handbook of Research Methods in Behavioural Economics, 2023, pp 1-12
5. Labour Rights, Full Employment, Mental Model Choice and a Dynamic Market Economy
   Springer

2022

6. A Revision of Canadian Economic Growth: 1870–1910 (A Challenge to the Gradualist Interpretation)
   Springer
   See also Journal Article A Revision of Canadian Economic Growth: 1870-1910 (A Challenge to the Gradualist Interpretation), Canadian Economics Association (1987) View citations (2) (1987)
7. Community Embeddedness, Consumer Voice, Corporate Social Responsibility
   Palgrave Macmillan
8. Economic Development with High Wages: An Historical Perspective
   Springer
   See also Journal Article Economic development with high wages: An historical perspective, Elsevier (1988) View citations (6) (1988)
9. Economic Growth and Development in Early Canada
   Springer
10. Gender Pay Inequality and Occupational Change in Canada, in the Early Twentieth Century (with Louise Lamontagne)
    Springer
11. Growth Theory and Economic History: A Staple Perspective
    Springer
12. How Long Did Canadian Workers Actually Work? The Struggle for a Shorter Work Week and Workers’ Standards of Living Before the Great Depression
    Springer
13. Introduction
    Palgrave Macmillan
14. Introduction: Quantitative Economics in a Canadian Context
    Springer
15. Labour Productivity in Nineteenth Century Quebec and Ontario: Explaining Ontario’s Advantage
    Springer
16. New Historical Canadian Output Estimates: Implications for an Understanding of Canadian Economic Development, 1870–1926
    Springer
17. Obesity, Wellbeing, Freedom of Choice, and Institutional Change
    Palgrave Macmillan
18. On the Natural Intelligence of Women: How the Feminization of Clerical Work Contributed to Gender Pay Equality in Early Twentieth Century Canada (With Louise Lamontagne)
    Springer
19. Railways as an Engine of Economic Growth? Who Benefited from the Canadian Railway Boom?
    Springer
20. Resources Endowments and Economic Development: Why Location and the Bounties of Nature Can’t Explain Quebec’s Laggard Economic Performance in the Pre-World War One Period
    Springer
21. The Economic Impact of the Seigniorial Tenure in Early Canada
    Springer
22. The State of Quebec Agriculture in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: Comparing French Canadian and Non-French Farmers
    Springer

2017

23. Introduction to smart decision-making
    Chapter 1 in Handbook of Behavioural Economics and Smart Decision-Making, 2017, pp 1-8
24. Rational inefficiency: smart thinking, bounded rationality and the scientific basis for economic failure and success
    Chapter 2 in Handbook of Behavioural Economics and Smart Decision-Making, 2017, pp 11-42

2008

25. The Social Economics of Growth and Income Inequality
    Chapter 14 in The Elgar Companion to Social Economics, 2008 View citations (2)

2006

26. The State and Economic Efficiency: A Behavioral Approach
    Palgrave Macmillan
27. Workers Cooperatives as an Alternative Competitive Organizational Form
    A chapter in Participation in the Age of Globalization and Information, 2006, pp 213-235

Editor

1. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics)
   Elsevier